Automotive
Imagine entering the highway in the near future and seeing a 50 mph (80 kilometers per hour) speed limit sign, but no road construction, no accident and no obvious reason to slow down. This time, the aim is to save fuel.
Oct 1, 2026
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Engineering
If you see a boat full of people all watching a smaller, remote-control boat in the Indian River, your first thought probably isn't that they are testing Navy warships.
Oct 1, 2026
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Energy & Green Tech
Prime Minister Andy Burnham's proposal to create a new Great British Grid has put a spotlight on one of the U.K.'s biggest energy challenges: connection queues. But building a larger grid to accommodate renewable energy is ...
Oct 1, 2026
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Hardware
When designing new computer chips, engineers need to make various decisions about how to connect their underlying components while efficiently using limited space. Planning these connections involves combinatorial optimization, ...
Robotics
We are used to seeing images of humanoid robots clumsily walking, stumbling over objects and awkwardly freezing in place. Struggling with real-world movement is one of the biggest drawbacks of current robotics. But now a ...
Computer Sciences
In the production of video games and animated movies, directors and animators are constantly fine-tuning how a character's movements should appear. In many cases, directors require subtle changes, such as making a character ...
Sep 30, 2026
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Robotics
In-home assistive robots could clean and organize a home while the owner is away, but without enhanced memory capabilities, they could cause more problems than they solve. They could, for example, cause a major inconvenience ...
Sep 30, 2026
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Computer Sciences
A new AI system that excels at challenging games with hidden information could someday help human decision-makers select strategies to outfox opponents in complicated situations like military maneuvers.
Sep 30, 2026
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Robotics
An octopus can bend one part of an arm around an obstacle while another reaches into a small crevice to grab an object. Reproducing that local control in a soft robot requires multiple actuators—components that turn energy ...
Sep 30, 2026
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Engineering
Rice University researchers in the departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science and Nanoengineering and at the Rice Advanced Materials Institute have developed a relatively soft, flexible ...
Sep 30, 2026
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